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| | Acro Sport | Acro Sport is a form of group tumbling, balancing and pyramid building. Like most acts in Gamma Phi Circus, Acro sport develops teamwork and trust in everyone involved in the act. It has been one of the oldest acts in our circus. Pictures of acrosport, or forms of it exist dating back to 1926.
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| | Adagio | A type of dance in which the partners perform steps requiring synchronicity and great skill in lifting, balancing, and turning. Adagio can take many forms, Gamma Phi Circus typically displays it as a two- four partner act with lifts and tosses set to music.
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| | Aerial Hoop | Just as the name implies, a metallic hoop is suspended in mid air, providing a showcase of grace and poise for our Gamma Phi Circus artist.
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| | Bike | An act that utilizes stacking pyramids and acrobatic feats on a moving bicycle
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| | Cloud Swing | “A single web suspended by both ends to make a swing,” essentially describes this act. This act demands all the precision of movement of a Spanish web, but is set in motion much like a swinging trapeze. The web material provides for a series of twists and wraps allowing an artist more flexibility in routines.
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 | Clowns | An act that really needs no description, the art of clowning has been a part of the circus for centuries. These figures, amuse and cajole, existing only as extenuations and exaggerations of human characteristics.
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| | Diabolo | A juggling routine based on the principles of a gyroscope
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| | Fire Eaters | An act as mysterious as it is dangerous, fire eating is performed with the utmost in care. Please do not attempt this act on your own! Our Gamma Phi Circus performers spend many hours perfecting this art form.
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| | Flying Trapeze | One of the signature acts of the circus, the flying trapeze is the one act most people associate with a circus, and YES, it is performed over a net. The art of flying from the trapeze to the waiting hands of the catcher and returning to the trapeze bar has a rich history in the Bloomington-Normal Area, however, it has become a recent addition to the Gamma Phi Circus.
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| | Globes | Balance and agility the are essential components of keeping a globe from rolling out from under the feet or our performers. There skills don’t stop at just standing on globes, Gamma Phi Circus performers walk up ramps, juggle and stack pyramids all the while balancing atop a rolling globe.
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| | Gymwheel | Gymwheel is not only a circus act, but a sport also known as wheel gymnastics. Gamma Phi Circus has become known the world over for the dedication of our gymwheelers to the art form and sport. Our artists roll, revolve and spiral, into, out of and on the apparatus known as the Gymwheel. It is a discipline which demands high strength, flexibility and determination.
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| | Hair Hang | Exactly as the name intends, our performers actually hang by their hair, braided and tied in a special knot. This is a traditional circus act and has been a part of the show for many years.
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| | Hand Balancing | Hand Balancing is an exhibition of strength and grace where two to four individuals perform a choreographed display of partner balancing.
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| | High Cradle | High cradle, or cradle to cradle, as it is sometimes referred to, is an act of strength, fearlessness and grit. Performers use the power generated by their own limbs to hurl partners in passes 25 feet over a net. Cradle to cradle developed as a precursor to the traditional fly-and-return acts of the flying trapeze.
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| | Juggling | Juggling is the not-so-simple act of keeping more than two objects in the air simultaneously. A quick hand and loads of patience are just two of many requirements to mastering juggling. Our performers can and have juggled everything from scarves to knives, to flaming torches.
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| | Low-casting Trapeze |
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| | Mini Teeterboard |
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| | Perch Pole | The precarious art of the perch pole puts one performer perilously at the top of a perch balanced on the shoulders of a partner.
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| | Russian Bar | A Russian bar act consists of 2 porters and at least one flyer and one Russian bar. The porters rest the ends of the bar on their shoulders while the flyer stands atop the bar. By utilizing the flexibility of the bar, the balance and teamwork of the porter and skill of the flyer, performers can reach dizzying heights in a trick and return to balance on the bar.
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| | Russian Swing | The Russian swing is a pendulum device that hurls performers high into the air. Inertia is the key to the swings power. One performer, known as the booster, pushes the swing, while the other performers leap to the arms of the catchers.
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| | Skating | Skating combines the love for roller skates or blades with centrifugal force and partners to make a unique and fun circus act.
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| | Spanish Web | The Spanish Web is the aerial ballet of the circus. Performers dance up and down the rope-like apparatus using a variety of maneuvers and loops. The Spanish Webs require a high degree of strength, choreography and artistry.
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| | Swinging Trapeze | Another signature act of the circus, a solo artist on the trapeze has always captivated audiences. Our performers employ grace and expert timing in the swinging trapeze.
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| | Teeterboard | Teeterboard is where the see-saws of your youth are transformed into a dangerous circus act. This is always a crowd favorite. Our performers are catapulted into the air usually to the shoulders of partners. Our performers have stacked 3, 4 and even 5 people high!
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| | Tight-wire | The fine art of funambulism is bought to life in the Gamma Phi Circus. Our wire walkers leap, juggle, and stack partners and pyramids all the while balancing on a wire 5/8 of an inch thick.
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| | Trampoline | A classic tool for training aerial awareness is also a circus act. Our performers have put a twist into the presentation by adding cradle catchers to the trampolines.
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| | Triple Trapeze | Three trapezes linked as one provides the backdrop for this act of choreographed artist, timing and teamwork.
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| | Tumbling | Gamma Phi Circus never ceases to capitalize on the strong roots the program has in gymnastics. Tumbling has always been a part of the circus and our performers flip-flop, twist and tumble in true gymnast fashion.
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| | Unicycles | Our performers keep rolling along on a wheel and a prayer.
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| | Vaulting | An exciting act involving a mini-trampoline and lots of derring-do. Performers vault onto a mat and over each other and occasionally some volunteers.
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